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While the seat of Orange continues to change with its largest city growing in population and new towns included after a re-distribution, its politics have been fairly stable for more nearly 70 years.
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Forty years ago, dangerous asbestos insulation fluff was pumped into ACT and NSW homes by a group of contractors, including a company known as Mr Fluffy. The government was warned but did nothing. Now homes are being bulldozed and some residents are developing cancers.Di Martininvestigates. ...

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The Queensland Speaker Peter Wellington says he believes domestic violence allegations against MP Billy Gordon are being used to try to destabilise the Government. The question is now whether Labor can hold onto power, as it continues to put the pressure on Mr Gordon to resign from Parliament. ...

Labor's grip on power in the Queensland Parliament is even more tenuous in the aftermath of revelations that one of its MPs had a criminal record which he failed to disclose. The MP for the Far North Queensland seat of Cook, Billy Gordon, has now resigned from the Labor Party under threat of imminent ...

Senior staff at the Northern Territory Department of Children and Families considered forcing an abortion on a teenager in their care late last year. The cognitively impaired girl was 17 and living under the care of the Minister when she became pregnant. ...

The Foreign Minister Julie Bishop was one of the enthusiastic supporters at the Liberal Party celebrations in Sydney last night. She says Mike Baird has explained his policies to the people of NSW and taken them with him.
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